15th Oct, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST
Modern & Contemporary Art
74
Maggi Hambling CBE (b.1945)
"Red Head with Cat"
Signed verso and dated (19)83, oil on canvas, 130cm by 96.5cm
Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, 20th Century British Art, Thursday, 30th June 2005, Lot 0245A
Marlborough Gallery, London
Sold together with a letter from the artist relating to the picture. She noted that the work was painted when she lived in Battersea, that the sitter was a girlfriend at the time and that the cat was called Pavole.
Sold for £28,000
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000
Some light surface dirt. An area of craquelure to the grey paint of the background just above the white and right of centre of her back, approximately 3cm in length, another to the paint below her chin vertically above her chest approximately 6cm in length. Very minor craquelure within the brown to the left of her knee. Possible shrinkage within the black paint lower right, this may be by design? See images.
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Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 15th Oct, 2022
The sale includes the residual pictures from the collection of a Lady, of which the tour de force is the highly important impressionistic rendition of “The North Sea” by Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976). Other key works from the estate include two further drawings by L S Lowry “The Pond” and “Man Taken Ill”, each representing diverse periods of the artist’s oeuvre.
Further works of note include a Henry Moore bronze, "Maquette for Warrior with Shield" (1952-53), a collection of works from the family of the artist Paul Maze (1887-1979), a good selection of works by Northern artists such as Norman Cornish, Tom McGuinness, Brian Shields “Braaq”, Joe Scarborough, Peter Brook, and celebrated Modern British artists such as Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe and Montague Dawson.
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